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by qubex 6y ago
This is directly addressed in the post and Linus is directly quoted. Haven’t you read it?
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by qubex 6y ago
The design of the GUIs were one of the reasons I got interested in two of the exotic beasts of the 1990s OS wars: BeOS and NeXT. BeOS was a deliberately “vapourwave chiselled look with 90s cartoon icons” that screamed F.R.E.N.D.S and Melros
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by qubex 6y ago
The memories this brings back! I turned 18 midway through 1999 and since I was deeply interested in multiprocessor OSes (chiefly, BeOS) I asked for (and was lucky enough to get) a dual PIII-450 system as an 18th birthday/high-school gr
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by qubex 6y ago
You can easily send them through the earth because they are hard to detect: it’s two sides of how low their interaction is. What’s the point sending data that you cannot pick up? Femilab could probably modulate their bean to Oklahoma (or
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Militarized Computer Sales Pamphlet from the 1980s(yumpu.com)
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by qubex 6y ago
I’m a fountain-pen aficionado that was taught to write with fountain pens and cursive writing way back in the eighties and never stopped. Now I have a sizeable collection, but by far my favourite is Faber Castell’s Tamitio which features a
727.
by qubex 6y ago
Agree. Hard to disagree, really.
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by qubex 6y ago
I assume OS schedulers are going to have to include instruction-set support when seeking to maintain core affinity.
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by qubex 6y ago
My God what a bleak read. It summarises everything that I fear: that our “height of civilisation” is an uncharacteristic blip (coincidentally solving the Fermi Paradox, but I digress), that various thresholds have already been crossed, that
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by qubex 6y ago
In my deepest ever plunge into the unfathomable depths of depressive despair, I saw the walls were crying .
731.
by qubex 6y ago
Excessively abundant on narrative and long-winded. TL;DR: It is possible that a weak nuclear force effect may be responsible for what was initially interpreted as “cold fusion” and that Einstein might’ve guessed at the mechanism by which th
732.
by qubex 6y ago
“Dyslexics of Gaul, Unite!”
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by qubex 6y ago
This is both the most amazing and inadvertently-cyberpunk things I’ve read in the second half of this week. The idea of a company setting up a for-profit city in a foreign country that would essentially have self-juridstiction in order to e
734.
by qubex 6y ago
Excessively abundant on narrative and long-winded. TL;DR: It is possible that a weak nuclear force effect may be responsible for what was initially interpreted as “cold fusion” and that Einstein might’ve guessed at the mechanism by which th
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by qubex 6y ago
Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18178230
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by qubex 6y ago
A native application is a stand-alone, non-electron application whose entire stack (runtime, business logic, data engine, and information store) resides on the user’s machine. ‘Hosted’, to me at least, means that you’ve got an augmented web
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by qubex 6y ago
Call me quaint, but I despise software hosted in a cloud and/or accessed through a browser.
738.
by qubex 6y ago
That’s very interesting, but to be perfectly honest it’s almost the exact opposite of how I’d tend to think of things whilst building or manipulating a model. I don’t want to offend anyone, but it feels baroque , like something bolted-on,
739.
by qubex 6y ago
That’s a “more workable” solution. Still, again, as a power user... native applications are hard to beat.
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by qubex 6y ago
Uhm, no. I assure you the powers-that-be in my firm would totally lose their marbles if highly reserved data were crossing out into some web-app hosted who-knows-where and viewable by who-knows-who.
741.
by qubex 6y ago
As a single power user of such software, I assure you that multidimensionality is a characteristic of the data and not a feature that’s convenient only once one has multiple users. The classic product/channel/geography relationshi
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by qubex 6y ago
For somebody who misses Lotus Improv, used Quantrix Modeller, and has evaluated XCubes, this feels about right. Unfortunately web-based solution (particularly those that cannot be self-hosted) are basically verboten to those who (such as
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by qubex 6y ago
I don’t know if it does or not, but I’m curious to know why this interests you, in the sense that if it works it doesn’t really matter to (potential) end-users such as ourselves how it is implemented. I’m not denouncing the question as ille
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by qubex 6y ago
I worked in a place that had a very nice in-house blade server setup with an attached NAS, which was encrypted (at rest, on storage). This was early in the “cloud” epoch and at any rate they preferred in-house iron for entirely understandab
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by qubex 6y ago
I’m fairly convinced that the authoritarian regimes will eventually come to realise that pooling their resources to jointly develop manufacturing technology will behoove them as it will allow them to build their own fabs to manufacture thei
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by qubex 6y ago
Correction: -are is by far the most frequent suffix, -ere intermediate, and -ire therefore the least frequent. Many terms we need daily seem to have no real native analogue; at least not one that wouldn’t sound as if you’re delibera
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by qubex 6y ago
I have experienced this. I consider myself a staunch rationalist and atheist. But during a specific phase in my life, when I was dealing with something that was right on the knife-edge (almost exactly 50/50 odds, calculated analyticall
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by qubex 6y ago
I’m (half) Italian and (as you might expect) we do much the same when we import terms from English: commit becomes commitare , debug becomes debugare , and so forth. There’s only three suffixes (‘ cogniugazioni ’) of verbs in Italian
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by qubex 6y ago
You can be pretty sure that the defence will belabour the point endlessly. There was mention of “possible intoxicants” or something like that in the coroner’s report. I’m not American so... mine is just an imperfect and remote opinion. Mayb
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by qubex 6y ago
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